Vince Carter's shooting 60.7 percent at the rim on the season for the Dallas Mavericks, but he shot a bit below that on Tuesday night, hitting two of four attempts in the Mavs' 110-100 win over the Sacramento Kings. Two of the tries — one a miss, the other a make — were pretty amazing. First, the agony: The play-by-play rundown of the game captures this play as "Vince Carter traveling," which is probably OK by Carter. I imagine his attitude toward potential descriptions of him coming up short on a finger-roll, airballing a layup by trying to be Vince "Mr. Fancy Man" Gervinson in the paint, would probably be, "The less said, the better." To his credit, Carter smiled, clapped, ran down the other end ... and plotted his redemption. Three minutes later, unfortunately for Kings big man Hassan Whiteside, he got it. Hit the jump for the ecstasy.
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